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This list of notable Howard University people (alumni sometimes known as Bison), includes faculty, staff, graduates, honorary graduates, non-graduate former students and current students of the American Howard University, a private, coeducational, nonsectarian historically black university, located in Washington, D.C.

Academics

Science, medicine and mathematics

• Whittier C. Atkinson
• Patricia Bath
• Alexander H. Darnes
• Marie B. Lucas

Historians

Academic administrators

• Johnson O. Akinleye
• William E. Benson
• Charlene Drew Jarvis
• Kelly Miller

Business

Politics and public service

Civil rights, law and government

• Edward Brooke
• Mary Ann Shadd Cary
• Elijah Cummings
• David Dinkins
• Mike Espy
• Adrian Fenty
• Harold Ford Sr.
• Kamala Harris
• Letitia James
• Thurgood Marshall
• Gregory W. Meeks
• Walter Washington
• L. Douglas Wilder
• Fani Willis
• Andrew Young

Military service

• Aman Andom
• Benjamin O. Davis Sr.

Entertainment

Sports

Journalism

• Gus Johnson

Nobel laureates

Peace, literature, or economics

• Ralph Bunche
• Toni Morrison

Literature

• Zora Neale Hurston

Musicians

• Sean Combs
• Roberta Flack
• Richard Smallwood

Pageant queens

Film and television

• Anthony Anderson
• Chadwick Boseman
• Ossie Davis
• Phylicia Rashad
• Roxie Roker
• Marlon Wayans

Other visual and performing arts

• Amiri Baraka
• Paul Laurence Dunbar

Religion

Other notable alumni

• Dawud Salahuddin (born 1950), Muslim terrorist

Notable faculty

See also

• List of people from Washington, D.C.

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